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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuji Ishikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358437 ; 358437 ; 358404 ; 358468 ; 358296 ;
Abstract
A facsimile apparatus prints out a received image interrupted during the reception by the same process for both the interruption of a communication line and the power failure of a power supply. A bit pattern called a page interruption code which does not appear in normal code data is used as data to be overwritten to erase the past image data stored in a buffer memory. In a decoding process, a function to detect an RTC code which is a normal page end code and a function to detect the page interruption code are provided so that the image interrupted during the reception is printed out to at least the last point of the received image.